My media

I try to get a broadsheet and a redtop at home but I read all of them at work. The broadsheet rotates between the Guardian, Independent and the Times. I quite like the Times' new format. There is a lot to get through with the new Guardian in its Berliner format - I liked the broadsheet, to be honest, but I am persevering.

Magazines

A freebie called Families distributed around north-west London, which lists great things to do with kids. And Aspire, a black version of Cosmo, aimed at the black, middle-class woman - good for a bit of goss. OK! and Hello! if the picture catches me and I've got spare time. If I'm working on anything in particular, the Economist gives a really good grounding in a subject, and Private Eye for a laugh.

Books

I'm reading Greg Dyke's Inside Story. It's very insightful. There are lots of things I wish I'd known about him while he was my boss. I've recently read the Serpent and the Moon by Princess Michael of Kent - ordinarily I would not have picked it up, but it was a freebie at work. It's about 16th-century French royalty and it is fantastic.

TV

This Week with Andrew Neil; I love the combination of Diane Abbott and Michael Portillo. I like the Thai bride in Little Britain. My motivation for TV is either facts-driven or to keep the children quiet, so it's either Scooby Doo or Newsnight.

Radio

Radio 5 Live breakfast, with Shelagh Fogarty and Nicky Campbell - they're a great team. Also, Up All Night with Dotun Adebayo as you get some interesting stories. Classic FM while I'm showering the children, to keep me calm because that's quite fraught. I used to listen to Today but it is the wrong time for me now so we tend to stick to Classic FM while I'm watching breakfast news on Sky News' Sunrise.

Ads

The Marks & Spencer food ad with the chocolate pudding makes me want to go out and buy it straightaway - when they cut that pudding, I want it there and then. It looks like the best thing in the world.

New media

I'm getting there. I look at mediaguardian.co.uk now and again. I book holidays online and I buy all my books on amazon.co.uk. When I get in at about 1am, I should go straight to bed because I've got to get up at 7am to do the school run, but I think: "Oh, let me just see if there are any emails." People get emails from me at 2am.